After self-employment tax at 15.3% and income tax, you keep about 57 cents per side hustle dollar. Here's when the math works, when it doesn't, and what usually produces a better return on the same hours.
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The people who get paid and promoted aren't the nicest in the room. After years as the agreeable one, I finally read the bill for being liked at work.
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